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His Majesty King Hamad has ratified a law on protection of state classified information and documents.
The new legislation shall apply to public sector employees or those under their legal authority, as stipula

Allegations that an American-funded development programme was being used to undermine regional governments, including Bahrain, have been denied by the US Embassy in Manama.
It follows concerns that the Mi

A secret underground weapons warehouse was used to hide machine guns, handguns, silencers and more than 3,000 bullets, a court heard.
The ammunition and weapons, including five AK-47 assault rifles, five 9mm pistols and five silen

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus that they must share information and not allow commercial labs to profit from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide.

In the annals of tall skyscrapers, there is no doubt that the soon-to-open Burj Dubai will be the world's tallest. But how tall is known to only a few.
'It's still a secret,' William Baker of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LL

Some of the closest relatives of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden are living in a secret compound in Iran, according to a report in Britain's the Times newspaper.
The group includes a wife and children who disappeared from bin Laden'

Israel recently conveyed a warning to Syria through a third party that it would hold Damascus accountable if Lebanese Hezbollah launched attacks on the Jewish state, Israeli and European sources said.
The sources, speaking on condition of

The US military said it had evidence Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq were increasingly using secret weapons stores to attack US and Iraqi forces.
The accusation comes days after Tehran postponed talks with the United States on impr

A string of anonymous Aids testing centres may be set up in Bahrain, to reach hundreds of people who may be infected without being aware of it.
There are 139 known Bahraini HIV or Aids sufferers, but trends suggest more than 200 others may